Green Chemistry & Commerce Council (GC3) and InnoCentive Announce Winners of Global GC3 Challenge
August 14, 2018
GC3 and InnoCentive have announced the winners of the global GC3 Challenge: Developing New Preservatives for Personal Care & Household Products. The Challenge was aimed to identify and support innovators developing preservative technologies with improved environmental, health and safety profiles for use in cosmetics, personal care and household products. There is an urgent need for green chemistry innovation in preservative technologies because regulations, market demands and increasing consumer interest have shrunk the palette of acceptable preservative options for formulators. The GC3 Preservatives Challenge sought submissions on new broad spectrum or single action chemical agents on gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria, yeast and mold, as well as preservative boosters.
The 1st place award recipients were Avisco Ltd., IMD Natural Solutions GmbH, Irena Jevtov Research & Innovation, United States Department of Agriculture/People Against Dirty/Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry/University of Victoria/Safer Made. The 2nd place award recipients were Hydromer, Inc. and Russian Academy of Sciences, and the 3rd place award recipient was Chinova Bioworks. Challenge sponsors and participants represented the entire value chain, with 11 consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, two major retailers and five suppliers: Babyganics, Beautycounter, Beiersdorf, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson Consumer (J&J), Kao USA, Method – People Against Dirty, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Reckitt Benckiser (RB), SC Johnson, Unilever, Target, Walmart, Dow Microbial Control, Lonza, Schülke, Symrise, and Thor, as well as the Environmental Defense Fund and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. For more details, click here.
GC3 and InnoCentive have announced the winners of the global GC3 Challenge: Developing New Preservatives for Personal Care & Household Products. The Challenge was aimed to identify and support innovators developing preservative technologies with improved environmental, health and safety profiles for use in cosmetics, personal care and household products. There is an urgent need for green chemistry innovation in preservative technologies because regulations, market demands and increasing consumer interest have shrunk the palette of acceptable preservative options for formulators. The GC3 Preservatives Challenge sought submissions on new broad spectrum or single action chemical agents on gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria, yeast and mold, as well as preservative boosters.
The 1st place award recipients were Avisco Ltd., IMD Natural Solutions GmbH, Irena Jevtov Research & Innovation, United States Department of Agriculture/People Against Dirty/Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry/University of Victoria/Safer Made. The 2nd place award recipients were Hydromer, Inc. and Russian Academy of Sciences, and the 3rd place award recipient was Chinova Bioworks. Challenge sponsors and participants represented the entire value chain, with 11 consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, two major retailers and five suppliers: Babyganics, Beautycounter, Beiersdorf, Colgate-Palmolive, Johnson & Johnson Consumer (J&J), Kao USA, Method – People Against Dirty, Procter & Gamble (P&G), Reckitt Benckiser (RB), SC Johnson, Unilever, Target, Walmart, Dow Microbial Control, Lonza, Schülke, Symrise, and Thor, as well as the Environmental Defense Fund and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. For more details, click here.